Gandhi Peace Award


Gandhi Peace Award
The Gandhi Peace Award is an award and cash prize presented annually since 1960 by Promoting Enduring Peace to individuals for "contributions made in the promotion of international peace and good will." It is named in honor of ''Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi'' but has no personal connection to Mohandas Gandhi or any member of his family. In the 21st Century the Award is especially intended by its presenters to honor those whose lives and works exemplify the principle that international peace, universal socioeconomic justice, and planetary environmental harmony are interdependent and inseparable, and all three are essential to the survival of civilization. The Award itself is symbolized by a heavy medallion and a certificate with an inscription summing up the recipient's work. The medallion, forged from Peace Bronze (a metal rendered from decommissioned nuclear missile command systems, evoking "swords into plowshares"), features Gandhi's profile and his words "Love Ever Suffers/Never Revenges Itself" cast in bronze. The Award has been presented at a ceremony held typically once a year in New York or New Haven at which the recipient is invited to present a message of challenge and hope.

Gandhi Peace Awardee (1960 ~ 1985)
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A.J. Muste
Gandhi Peace Prize 1966
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, (born Sept. 20, 1833, Milan, Austrian Empire [now in Italy]—died Feb. 10, 1918, Milan, Italy), Italian journalist and international activist on behalf of peace (except where Italian interests required war). He won (with Louis Renault) the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1907.
At the age of 15 Moneta participated in the Milanese insurrection of 1848 against Austrian rule, and in 1859–60 he fought under Giuseppe Garibaldi in the victorious war of liberation. In 1861 he joined the regular Italian army and fought in the Battle of Custoza in 1866. After resigning from the army, he became editor (1867–96) of Il Secolo, a democratic newspaper published in Milan.
The suffering that Moneta witnessed during his military career prompted him to seek ways to abolish war, and about 1887 he founded the Società Internazionale per la Pace: Unione Lombarda (“International Society for Peace: Lombard League”) to propagandize for disarmament, a league of nations, and settlement of international disputes by arbitration. In 1898 he founded a pacifist periodical, Vita internazionale (“International Life”). In 1906 his presidency at the International Peace Conference in Milan led to his sharing the Nobel Prize for Peace. Nevertheless, in 1911 he supported Italy’s war against Turkey on the grounds of an Italian civilizing mission in Libya, and in 1915 he advocated Italian entry into World War I to combat the imperialist designs of the Central Powers.
“My final goal as a politician is to establish an association for peace made up of Europe’s states, a league, where the dangers that come of borders are abolished, and which chases the demon envy out the door; a brotherhood that will not allow patriotism to develop into a narrow-minded nationalism, that will not allow evil and hate to blow every small misunderstanding up into a cause for war. I see true internationalism in the efforts to achieve such a goal. And I believe we are moving towards this.” (Ernesto Moneta in the newspaper Verdens Gang, 25.8.1908.)

Kay Camp
Gandhi Peace Prize 1984
Charles G. Dawes, in full Charles Gates Dawes, (born Aug. 27, 1865, Marietta, Ohio, U.S.—died April 23, 1951, Evanston, Ill.), 30th vice president of the United States (1925–29) in the Republican administration of President Calvin Coolidge. An ambassador and author of the “Dawes Plan” for managing Germany’s reparations payments after World War I, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace jointly with Sir Austen Chamberlain in 1925.
Dawes was the son of General Rufus R. Dawes, a Union officer during the American Civil War and later a member of Congress, and Mary Beman Gates. Educated at Marietta College in Ohio and Cincinnati Law School, Dawes practiced law in Lincoln, Nebraska (1887–94), and then moved to Evanston, Illinois, which he made his permanent home. He was appointed United States comptroller of the currency in 1897 but resigned to contest (unsuccessfully) the Republican Party nomination for a United States Senate seat in 1901. He then turned to private business and banking and organized the Central Trust Company of Illinois. During World War I, Dawes was head of supply procurement for the American Expeditionary Force in France. After his resignation as a brigadier general in 1919, he was appointed by President Warren G. Harding as the first director of the budget in 1921.
In 1923 Dawes was appointed by the Allied Reparations Commission to plan a solution for the problem of Germany’s inability to pay reparations for its liability for World War I as set forth in the Treaty of Versailles. Dawes presided over a committee of experts that submitted a plan in 1924 providing for a reorganization of German finances with the assistance of loans from American investors. The Dawes Plan saved Europe from economic collapse for a few years, but it proved to be only a partial solution for the dilemma of world economic disorganization.
After he was selected as Coolidge’s vice-presidential running mate in 1924, he campaigned against the Ku Klux Klan and supported limits on the use of the filibuster in the Senate. As vice president he favoured the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which attempted to eliminate war as an instrument of foreign policy. He declined to seek the presidency in 1928 and was appointed ambassador to Great Britain (1929–32) by Herbert Hoover. During the Great Depression he returned to the United States (1932) to direct the Reconstruction Finance Corporation but resigned the same year to reenter the banking business.
Dawes was the author of several works, including A Journal of the Great War (1921), Notes as Vice President (1935), and A Journal of Reparations (1939). A self-taught musician, he composed Melody in A Major (1912), an instrumental piece for violin that, with the addition of lyrics by Carl Sigman, became the pop standard “It’s All in the Game” (1951).
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Gandhi Peace Awardee (1986 ~ 2010)
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Gandhi Peace Awardee (2011 ~ 2030)
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Nobel Peace Prize 1925
Charles G. Dawes, in full Charles Gates Dawes, (born Aug. 27, 1865, Marietta, Ohio, U.S.—died April 23, 1951, Evanston, Ill.), 30th vice president of the United States (1925–29) in the Republican administration of President Calvin Coolidge. An ambassador and author of the “Dawes Plan” for managing Germany’s reparations payments after World War I, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace jointly with Sir Austen Chamberlain in 1925.
Dawes was the son of General Rufus R. Dawes, a Union officer during the American Civil War and later a member of Congress, and Mary Beman Gates. Educated at Marietta College in Ohio and Cincinnati Law School, Dawes practiced law in Lincoln, Nebraska (1887–94), and then moved to Evanston, Illinois, which he made his permanent home. He was appointed United States comptroller of the currency in 1897 but resigned to contest (unsuccessfully) the Republican Party nomination for a United States Senate seat in 1901. He then turned to private business and banking and organized the Central Trust Company of Illinois. During World War I, Dawes was head of supply procurement for the American Expeditionary Force in France. After his resignation as a brigadier general in 1919, he was appointed by President Warren G. Harding as the first director of the budget in 1921.
In 1923 Dawes was appointed by the Allied Reparations Commission to plan a solution for the problem of Germany’s inability to pay reparations for its liability for World War I as set forth in the Treaty of Versailles. Dawes presided over a committee of experts that submitted a plan in 1924 providing for a reorganization of German finances with the assistance of loans from American investors. The Dawes Plan saved Europe from economic collapse for a few years, but it proved to be only a partial solution for the dilemma of world economic disorganization.
After he was selected as Coolidge’s vice-presidential running mate in 1924, he campaigned against the Ku Klux Klan and supported limits on the use of the filibuster in the Senate. As vice president he favoured the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which attempted to eliminate war as an instrument of foreign policy. He declined to seek the presidency in 1928 and was appointed ambassador to Great Britain (1929–32) by Herbert Hoover. During the Great Depression he returned to the United States (1932) to direct the Reconstruction Finance Corporation but resigned the same year to reenter the banking business.
Dawes was the author of several works, including A Journal of the Great War (1921), Notes as Vice President (1935), and A Journal of Reparations (1939). A self-taught musician, he composed Melody in A Major (1912), an instrumental piece for violin that, with the addition of lyrics by Carl Sigman, became the pop standard “It’s All in the Game” (1951).
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